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B. FIEDLER.

MATCH SAFE. No. 510,906. Patented Dec. 19, 1893.

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BOHUSLAVQFIEDLER, OF PRAGUE, AUSTRIA-HUNGARY.

MATCH-SAFE.

SPECIFICATION forming part of Letters Patent No. 510,906, dated December 19, 1893. Application filed August 26, 1891- Serial No. 403,820. (No model.)

To all whom it may concern.-

Be it known that I, BOHUSLAV FIEDLER, engineer, residing at Prague, in the Kingdom of Bohemia and Austro-Hungarian Empire, have invented a certain new and useful Match-Box, of which the following is a specification, reference being had therein to the accompanying drawings.

This invention relates to a match box.

In the drawings Figure 1, is an end view of the match box. Fig. 2, is a side view, and Fig. 3, is an end view looking at the right hand end of Fig. 2.

The boxes are made without a lid, of asingle piece or sheet of metal, cardboard or paper a and are furnished with openings b fitting upon one another when the boxes are formed or put together and through which the match required to be withdrawn is seized. A special slot it having the size and form of a match is stamped in one side of the box and through it the matches are placed in the box. There is further provided on one end of the box a sheath like closed appendage 1' while the other end carries on both sides a roughened surface by rubbing on which the matches withdrawn from the box can be forthwith ignited. The sheath '6 serves as a counter bearing for the match which is being ignited being grasped by the hand when the match is drawn through the roughened surface.

The boxes are in every way suitable for phosphor matches or for the Swedish or socalled fulminating matches. The chief advantage of these boxes consists in the direct withdrawal of a match through the spring cleft or opening with a single movementtof the finger tips. Thus not only the troublesome opening of the box but also the dropping out of the matches are entirely prevented while the burning match can beinserted in such spring cleft and be thoroughly consumed without danger to the fingers.

Having now particularly described and ascertained the nature of my said invention and in what manner the same is to be performed, I declare that what I claim is A match box in one piece, having a recess portion and spring jaws, a projection K on one side of the recess roughened on its outer face, and a holding projection 'i, on the other side of the recess, substantially as described.

In witness whereof I have hereunto set my hand in presence of two witnesses.

BOHUSLAV FIEDLER.

Witnesses:

ADOLPH FISCHER, TH. WALD 

